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Porky Pig is a cartoon character in the Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons. He was the first character created by the studio to draw audiences based on his star power, and the animators created many critically acclaimed shorts featuring the character. [2]
The Case of the Stuttering Pig is a 1937 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes animated cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. [1] The short was released on October 30, 1937, and stars Porky Pig and Petunia Pig. [2] The title is a parody of The Case of the Stuttering Bishop, a Perry Mason mystery that Warner Bros. had filmed earlier that year.
Swooner Crooner is a 1944 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Frank Tashlin. [2] The short was released on May 6, 1944, and stars Porky Pig. [3]The cartoon was nominated for the 1944 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), but lost to the Tom and Jerry cartoon Mouse Trouble.
Joseph Tapley Dougherty (November 4, 1898 – April 19, 1978) [1] was an American actor, who provided the original voice of the Warner Bros. animation character, Porky Pig, starting with the character's debut in I Haven't Got a Hat in 1935 through Porky's Romance in 1937. Treg Brown changed his voice for Porky.
Originally, an actual stutterer voiced the pig, but could not control his stutter. Mel Blanc, who had no speech impairments, took over the role and affected the stutter. In 1991, the National Stuttering Project picketed Warner Bros. demanding that they stop "belittling" stutterers and instead use Porky Pig as an advocate for child stutterers ...
Porky's Duck Hunt is a 1937 Warner Bros. Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Tex Avery. [1] The cartoon was released on April 17, 1937, and stars Porky Pig and Daffy Duck , the latter making what is considered his first official appearance.
[1]: 204 [2]: 430 The cartoon was directed by Arthur Davis and stars Porky Pig. The title is a play on the song " Bye Bye Blackbird ". It is the final Looney Tunes entry directed by Davis before his animation unit was dissolved by Warner Bros and also a rare example of a Warner Brothers short in which a character (apparently) dies without a ...
I Haven't Got a Hat is a 1935 animated short film, directed by Isadore Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions as part of the Merrie Melodies series. [1] Released on March 2, 1935, the short is notable for featuring the first appearance of several Warner Bros. cartoon characters, most notably future cartoon star Porky Pig.